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Slanted and Canted: Curious Angles Define AIA Nebraska Awards

Many of the projects featured in AIA Nebraska’s latest set of awards have a different point of view: Unexpected angles and inclines unmoor predictable expectations and reorient perceptions of space. Whether it’s a subtle and sly perspective trick, or a ceiling slashing downward into a wall, these projects deform the de facto grid eyes are trained to look for. Their purposes vary (to subdivide different programmatic areas, to better harmonize with the ground plane, and to break up otherwise monolithic massing) but they’re all united by looking at things from a different perspective.